Bō或bò / Po
The source explicitly treats Bo as a rare surname currently used within the Chinese naming system. It is generally read bō, with bò also recorded; the source reports distribution in Wuchuan, Guangdong, and says it first appears in Xingyuan and is also included in Zheng Tongzhi: Shizulüe.
The webpage further proposes an origin from the ancient place Boze, saying that some pre-Qin residents adopted a place-based surname Bo. Because the same passage separately lists the surnames Ying and Bo written with other characters, this is only a set of parallel origin claims and does not justify merging those distinct written surnames.
The page is internally inconsistent about the surname’s commandery affiliation: one passage gives Zangke, while another gives Yingchuan. It lists Bozhou Hall, also called Zunyi Hall, Pingyue Hall, or Zangke Hall.
The webpage lists Bo Longlin as a Ming-period native of Ningwu, Shanxi, with birth and death dates unknown, and describes him as a Ming military officer who passed the martial jinshi examination in the Wanli gengzi year. This is the webpage’s biographical entry; it supplies no primary-source quotation or lineage information.
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